Also called Hannah’s: North corner of Ibeville & Liberty (Treme) opened 1900s: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...
Dancehalls in Orleans Parish
Grunewald Hall
On University Place (Burgunday/Dryades) between Canal & Tulane- pre 1900: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...
Halfway House
Photo from vjm.biz 102 City Park Avenue, New Orleans From http://www.vjm.biz/new_page_19.htm: ” The Halfway House was a kind of roadhouse. It was conveniently located halfway between the City of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain, along the New Basin Canal, at Pontchartrain Boulevard and City Park Avenue. It opened around 1915 and was run by the brothers Chris, Gus and Oscar Rabinsteiner. Chris was the club’s manager, Gus stood behind the bar and Oscar handled the car service at night (selling sandwiches, ice, etc. and giving spots to park). Some people even called the club ‘Chris’s’ in stead of ‘Halfway House’. When Chris and Oscar would have an argument and Oscar would lose, the latter would throw whatever he had at hand into the New Basin Canal and quit. The canalÕs bottom must have been paved with souvenirs. There was hardly a dull moment at the Halfway House and sometimes the band members even had to double as bouncers. Sunday always was a busy day at Halfway House. By the end of the afternoon, on their return from the resorts at Lake Pontchartrain, like Bucktown, West End and Milneberg the young people would drop in to have a drink or have a dance because the Halfway House always featured good hot dance music. With the Depression, business at the club decreased and it closed as a dance hall around 1930. But it remained a popular spot as an ice cream parlour.” ...
Haymarket Cafe
French Quarter Jazz club on west corner of Burgundy & Iberville: next door to Butzie Ferdenanz’ Saloon Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...
Hopes Hall
On South side of Liberty (Treme) between St. Ann & Orleans: opened 1900s: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...
Horsehoe
African American club- Featured in the 1949 Negro Motorist Green Book: Corner of Thalia & S. Rampart Avenue ...
Hot Spot Bar
1950s R&B club: On west side of S. Rampart between Perdido & Poydras: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...
Irish Hall
Corner of Willow & Gravier: undetermined age: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...
Iroquois Theater
413 S. Rampart Street: From the New Orleans Jazz History Business District/Back o’ Town Walking Tour brochure: “The Iroquois Theater was built in the fall of 1911 and had vaudeville programs until 1920. It featured many noteworthy musicians including guitarist Lonnie Johnson and his pianist brother James ÒSteady RollÓ Johnson; composer, pianist, and publisher Clarence Williams; singer Edna Landry, half-sister of Lizzie Miles; and Louis Armstrong. Louis won a talent contest here by dipping his face in flour and doing a ‘white face’ routine.” ...
Italian Hall
1020 Esplanade Avenue: From the New Orleans Jazz History Central Vieux Carre Walking Tour brochure: “This imposing complex was assembled out of old buildings (one by architect James Gallier, dating to 1835) and new construction from between 1912 and 1920. As the Unione Italiana, which combined many Italian benevolent societies, it was the home of both the Contessa Entellina Society Band, made up of Albanian-Sicilian Italian-Americans and the Roma Band, of Sicilian Italian-Americans. During their rivalry a musician could be in one, not both. Many jazz bands played here for dances including the New Orleans Rhythm Kings upon their return to New Orleans. In 1929, it housed the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight recording session, the first racially-integrated recording in New Orleans; Westwego-born clarinetist Sidney Arodin (Arnondin) jumped the color barrier.” ...